Interesting points, but even if they were filming postwar scenes like you speculate why would only certain actors have doubles and not all of them? So maybe they were just all filming 1 scene together but certain characters had to run for whatever reason and certain characters didn't.

i mean he's literally said that he's always known the main ending and endgames, despite being a gardener:
but you do you I guess. I personally think the notion that Cersei is still only alive bc D&D like Lena is totally nonsensical and was trying to explain why, but I'm afraid that talking about this more is just gonna be a waste of my time and anergy.

Well you have to keep in mind that not the entirety of 8x06 was filmed in Spain. They only filmed there for 4 days after all. So just because someone didn’t film in Seville doesn’t mean they won’t be in 8x06.
i agree that Faye probably filmed.
As far now I’m really leaning on Theon surviving. He’s one of those characters who has been tortured too much that him dying would almost be too easy at this point imo.

GRRM has said that he has know the main lannisters, Starks, Jon and Dany’s endgame since the very beginning lol. D&d had a meeting with him and were told the fates of all main characters. Whatever you or anyone else think might happen or “what makes sense” in the later books is just conjecture as they have not been released and who knows if they ever will be at this point.
a character like “Bronn” is probably more of the type of character that d&D are keeping around for fans as he’s a very minor character whose endgame GRRM might not have been sure of until he gets to that point on writing.
Cersei is not lol, she’s a main character whose death would be a HUGE deal. Frankly, after the ned’s death and red wedding, she would be the biggest death in the show. It is much MORE likely that she’s still alive bc of GRRM’s own endgame than just D&D loving her so much to give her millions and millions of dollars regardless of plot.

I highly doubt she’s just alive because d&d love her, she’s pretty expensive. HBO isn’t just a charity, that would be willing to pay her millions because the showrunners love her. She’s around because she won’t probbaly won’t die till the end in the never published books either. Considering now we pretty much know Jon, Dany, Tyrion, stark siblings aren’t dying, it makes sense that she would be the big main character death left till the end in both show and books

I think what’s going to happen is that Theon will somehow find and rescue Yara early on in the season and then have a final showdown with Euron later on in the season-probably 8x05 imo. 8x05 seems around the right time when Cersei would stop needing Euron as a plot device too lol

I thought the same about Rhaegal but I’m not sure anymore since Boatsexbaby said Jon might be riding Rhaegal during the dance of dragons. Plus I just sort of think they’ll definitely have Jon ride a dragon.
boatsexbaby never said anything about Mel making it to 8x06, just that the Mel mageramorne quarry scenes were for KL. So she could still die in 8x05 for all we know (personally I hope she does, Sapochnik should get to film some major death scenes too!)

Well I don’t know about Euron dying in the series finale. I could still see him going out in episode 5, same with Mel and Varys.
but NK, Cersei, Jaime, the mountain (maybe qyburn too?) are dying in the series finale imo.
i wouldn’t take any HBO exec at their word

Well if Cersei (and presumably Jaime) make it to 8x06 (and Cersei is pretty much confirmed to make it imo since the Mountain is). Then I think we can cross out any other main characters dying. Especially if the NK is also dying in this episode. I don’t see D&D going the Infinity War route.

Are we sure about the KL exterior scenes? Do we know when exactly they STARTED filming at that big KL set in episode 5? Honestly I think it’s very hard to tell exactly what kinds of scenes actors will have based on when they’re seen and because they don’t film in order. It’s true that Tyrion and Davos aren’t really fighters either but they’ve still had action scenes unlike Sansa and we have no real clue about Sam.
lol I don’t believe Sophie’s comment about actors only have 24 hours to read a scene. Sounds like BS and trolling to me.
time will tell about everything else. But honestly in regards to the writing I’m not expecting season 8 to be better than season 7. I’m sure there will be a thing or two in season 8 that’s just as fucking stupid as the wight hunt.

I think expecting the entirety of the series finale to be an epilogue was a reach. Especially since so many of the characters are so young and it's better if their endings are left a little open ended than something so concrete like the Harry Potter epilogue where we see them all aged up and married with 3 to 4 kids